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GalacticAcid posted:Let's get down ballot baby. a guy named cole vs. a coal tycoon is so west virginia
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I just really, really hope the Dems take back the CO state Senate this year (they already have the House). There have been several really good bills passed by the House recently that have been killed by the Senate. It's literally a one-seat margin so it shouldn't be too hard for them to pull off in a presidential year...I hope...
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FMguru posted:Also automation: machines and techniques have gotten good enough that a dozen people can now extract the same amount of coal that used to take hundreds of workers to do. Note: the jobs were already disappearing in a big way due to the technology in like the late 60s and early 70s, that's how far back it all goes. Coal's been hosed as mass employment for nearly 50 years.
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Taerkar posted:That bit in parentheses is why I'm so worried about Kentucky. The state legislature is teetering on that precipice and our governor is noted sociopath Matt Bevin. We're so hosed. So very, very hosed.
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God Florida is really gonna vote Rubio back in after everything aren't they? The Maroon Hawk posted:I just really, really hope the Dems take back the CO state Senate this year (they already have the House). There have been several really good bills passed by the House recently that have been killed by the Senate. It's literally a one-seat margin so it shouldn't be too hard for them to pull off in a presidential year...I hope... CO seems very blue lately, I wouldn't be surprised
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Chokes McGee posted:We're so hosed. At least there's lots of booze in the state!
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pathetic little tramp posted:Re Missouri polls tomorrow: in case anyone missed this getting drowned in vp speculation in the gop thread. Given recent polls have all had blunt up, this could be a good sign for kander. We'll know tmrw
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Zas posted:CO seems very blue lately, I wouldn't be surprised Yeah, I'm fairly certain taking back the Senate is easily doable, but we did just send Cory Gardner to the Senate so my faith is still a little bruised 
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Zas posted:God Florida is really gonna vote Rubio back in after everything aren't they?
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Badger of Basra posted:how long do you think it'll be before cook et al start giving house districts (and other things elected every two years) different ratings depending on whether it's a presidential year or not
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Hello, downballot thread. If you're interested, here is a web page with all of the people running in state elections in the Michigan August 2 primary. http://miboecfr.nictusa.com/election/candlist/16PRI/16PRI_CL.HTM My name will be on the local precinct ballot for precinct delegate. I am the only Democrat running in my precinct.
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https://twitter.com/laura_swinford/status/753960720899969024 Missouri senate race, Kander within MOE of Blunt. That's an insane result
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So with the Trump VP pick is IN-GOV now in play? Do they even have a replacement candidate yet?
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Hello, downballot thread. If you're interested, here is a web page with all of the people running in state elections in the Michigan August 2 primary. I would vote for you if I could, huge pubes.
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axeil posted:So with the Trump VP pick is IN-GOV now in play? Do they even have a replacement candidate yet? IN GOP: 
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Isn't Pence incredibly unpopular in IN? They might have a better shot of keeping the governorship now
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Badger of Basra posted:Isn't Pence incredibly unpopular in IN? They might have a better shot of keeping the governorship now
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Badger of Basra posted:Isn't Pence incredibly unpopular in IN? They might have a better shot of keeping the governorship now Yeah, IN GOP was hoping Pence would get picked so they could go with literally anyone else.
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IN GOP is holding a vote on the 26th to replace him: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article89806712.html Three contenders: Lt Gov Eric Holcomb and Reps Susan Brooks and Todd Rokita. I know nothing about any of them if anyone else has a clue? Cant wait for polls of all of them vs Gregg pathetic little tramp posted:https://twitter.com/laura_swinford/status/753960720899969024 Hugely impt for context: Hillary is down 10 in this same poll, so Kander being down 3 is great. From the PPP page: quote:One thing that's particularly striking is how poor Blunt's numbers are within his own party- only 49% of Republicans approve of the job he's doing to 26% who disapprove. Kander is actually winning more support now from Republicans (13%) than Blunt is from Democrats (10%) despite Blunt's far longer presence on the statewide scene. Kander is currently known to only 38% of voters in the state, so a lot of the direction this goes may depend on how voters feel about him as they get to know him better over the next 4 months. But apparently 47% of the undecided voters are trump supporters (vs 30% for hillary), so blunt's lead would double if they voted party line PPP link: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/missouri/
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Jazerus posted:IN GOP: I was seeing stories about how Indiana Republicans are kind of excited because it allows for a possible promotion that wasn't possible with Pence staying. Especially now that Bayh is going to go against Young.
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there's a congressional runoff a week from today for the republican nomination in safely red GA-03 - dentist drew ferguson vs guy who said he'd shoot a cop trying to enter his house even if he had a warrant mike crane the guy who doesn't wanna kill cops is considered the favorite in this race what little polling there is shows ferguson ahead. ferguson hit crane on the whole 'killing cops serving warrants' issue and crane's response ads have been described as 'some of my best friends are cops'. what a bunch of silly-o's i think crane said that poo poo in a private venue but i guess ferguson had some intern following him around, as is the practice. it was framed in a home defense libertarian sort of way incidentally this is not a blm activist or anything. but yeah republican primary electorates are generally rather pro-cop so i think the consensus is that it was a bit of a blunder, to talk about wanting to shoot them oystertoadfish has issued a correction as of 16:40 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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thethreeman posted:IN GOP is holding a vote on the 26th to replace him: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article89806712.html A bit of context from someone that lives here: --Right now Missouri's in the midst of some very nasty GOP primary battles (a two-way race for AG and a four-way contest for governor) while the Dems have lined up candidates in these races, are sitting back on their hands and waiting for the dust to clear. This is even more interesting because MO has no restrictions on political contributions, which not only makes it easy to see who's being backed by whom (check out this piece for more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...ee972647a4.html ) but one of current leader Eric Greitens' whales is currently being sued by a woman who alleges that he (the donor, not Greitens) kept her as a sex-slave for 13 years. --Kander is an Iraq vet who started off as a state legislator in KC, then won SoS by painting his opponent as an extremist (I remember one of his ads saying something to the effect of "When I served, I made sure to get an absentee ballot so I could make my voice heard. My opponent wants to greatly restrict voting by mail. Why does he want to make it impossible for the people defending our democracy to participate in that democracy?") --The name "Blunt" is still very toxic, because Roy's son Matt was MO Gov between 2004-08 and became very, VERY unpopular by gutting Medicaid, deleting thousands of emails (in blatant violation of open-records laws) where he apparently tried to use his power to influence outside political groups, and made statements saying that "people don't want to live in St Louis or Kansas City" which only furthered his reputation as only having the interests of Southwest Missouri, the Blunt family's base of power, at heart. --Missouri hates Kansas, and their political decisions are pretty much the elephant in the room in this election. That and right-to-work: a couple times it's been passed by the State Lege, only to not have a veto-proof majority because there's a sizable number of GOP lawmakers from STL/KC whose districts have a good number of union workers, and repeated polls (including the PPP one I quoted) have shown that most people here don't want it.
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Fundraising report for VT Senate race came out today. Pat "I am the Batman" Leahy (D) - $3,000,000+ Scott "Lifelong Vermonter, Hold on I was Born in Brooklyn" Milne (R) - $83 Though George Aiken did win his last race with $13.
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First IN-Sen poll is out, Bayh is crushing it at over fifty percent, Young is back at 39. Bear in mind, Indiana is a conservative state with Trumpish interests in a presidential year, so that will probably narrow somewhat. However, unless Young can produce a quality poll saying something different, you gotta say that race is lean D at this point.
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Cliff Racer posted:First IN-Sen poll is out, Bayh is crushing it at over fifty percent, Young is back at 39. Bear in mind, Indiana is a conservative state with Trumpish interests in a presidential year, so that will probably narrow somewhat. However, unless Young can produce a quality poll saying something different, you gotta say that race is lean D at this point. Which poll is this? The only one I can find is the DSCC internal poll they released with Bayh up 54 - 33. Good numbers, but it is an internal campaign one, so take with some caution.
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:Young Bayhs, now there's a recipe for drama.  We are Bayh.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Which poll is this? poo poo yeah, it was that one, I hosed up Young's numbers.
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Joementum posted:"Lifelong Vermonter, Hold on I was Born in Brooklyn" whens that ever been an issue in VT though
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Riptor posted:whens that ever been an issue in VT though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cecMgqCNrBY&t=40s
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Joementum posted:Fundraising report for VT Senate race came out today. so like, does it occur to anyone that maybe that money could go, well, anywhere else
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Looks like the stage had a lot of uh characters. What's the Vermont version of the rent-is-too-drat-high guy.
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pangstrom posted:Looks like the stage had a lot of uh characters. What's the Vermont version of the rent-is-too-drat-high guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4VJQzhBr28
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The Vermont spry-all-say-buh-bye party.
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Was the candidate from "You cahnt get theah from heah" party on stage or did he get lost on the way?
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Got the third piece of campaign lit in the mail today from a Democrat promising to enact Bernie's agenda at the state level. Not surprising, since I'm in Vermont. Anyone seeing that in other states?
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Joementum posted:Got the third piece of campaign lit in the mail today from a Democrat promising to enact Bernie's agenda at the state level. Not surprising, since I'm in Vermont. Anyone seeing that in other states? Yeah, there are a few candidates like that around Boston, Leland Cheung for one
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